Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With instructions in Italian. Two text illustrations

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 108
(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With instructions in Italian. Two text illustrations

ff.57-72 (complete). Lightly foxed. Contemporary salmon boards, worn. 8vo Yudlov 296; Ben-Menachem, Areshet III p. 446 no.2

(Venice: Bragadin Press 1780)

Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,500
Following Ben-Menachem’s erroneous listing of this Hagadah as only a part of a larger liturgical work printed in Mantua, Yudlov correctly records that the Hagadah was in fact issued twice, both as part of a Venetian prayer-book and again, seperately. Moreover he locates just one copy, in addition to the present one, located in the Library of the Italian Synagogue, Jerusalem